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De Kalb Blues

by: Lead Belly

Musicraft (226-B)

Publication date: 1939

Topics: 78rpm, Blues, acoustic

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Performer: Lead Belly

Accompanying himself on the guitar.

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 3.5 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 400.0, Rolloff: -18.0.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 3.3 mil truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

Matrix number: GM501
Catalog number: 226-B

Other IDs from the record include: 31; (GM-501)

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: The Boll Weevil

Addeddate: 2017-02-23 20:30:46

Boxid: IA1562111

Ccnum: asr

Closed captioning: yes

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0001543B

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:GM501

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-31T00:05:06Z

Genre: Blues

Identifier: 78_de-kalb-blues_lead-belly_gbia0001543b

Location: USA

Restored: True

Run time: 00:03:13

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Reviewer: MickMullin - - May 29, 2020
Subject: restored version

Restoration to enhance using iZotope v7.01 and Fabfilter Pro Q2 M/S EQ.

Reviewer: arc-claire - - August 4, 2017
Subject: De Kalb Blues, 1939

According to Allmusic.com, John and Alan Lomax first recorded the haunting "De Kalb Blues" while Lead Belly was still in prison. Tom Maginnis' review of "De Kalb Blues" for the website thoroughly describes its lyrics and its vocal and musical qualities—he writes, "Leadbelly expertly works his 12-string acoustic with fluid dexterity, simultaneously maintaining a sliding bass riff with light-flicking melodic picking of the upper strings, held together with a steady jumping tempo" (http://www.allmusic.com/song/de-kalb-blues-mt0004869251).

Folklorist John Lomax and his son Alan found Lead Belly in a Louisiana prison and recorded him on aluminum discs for the Library of Congress. This version of "De Kalb Blues" recorded for Musicraft was released several years after the original Lomax-recorded version.

Read about the Lomaxes' and Lead Belly's often-tumultuous relationship here: http://www.culturalequity.org/currents/ce_currents_leadbelly_faqs.php
Date source: http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc868167us

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